Tokaido

Tokaido

one of medieval Japan’s most important transportation routes. The Tokaido connected the cities of Edo (known as Tokyo since 1869) and Kyoto, extending 496 km in length. The first references to the Tokaido date from the sixth century. The road had great economic significance, as the two densely populated regions it connected were economically the most highly developed areas of the country. In 1889 a railroad was constructed more or less along the course of the Tokaido. A highway was built along the Tokaido in the 1930’s.

The nine Series 500 sets was originally built in 1997-98 with a design speed of 320km/h, and first used on the premium Nozomi limited-stop services between Tokyo and western Japan over the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen.

OSAKA (CyHAN)- Bullet train operations were suspended for about three hours early Thursday morning on the Japanese Tokaido Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Osaka due to a warehouse fire in Kyoto prefecture, local media reported.

In the process, she and the artist became friends - and she and her husband, Robert McClain, began collecting prints from what would become the masterwork of Sekino's career, "Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido," a series of 55 prints the artist had just begun in a project that would stretch over 15 years.

The suspenseful adventures of Seikei, 14-year-old samurai apprentice to Judge Ooka in early 18th-century Japan, continue in this sequel to The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn and The Demon in the Teahouse, though this volume can stand alone.

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